I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.
Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.
I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account.
We do a lot of things that kind of annoy people and our fan base. We try not to get overloaded on it. For us, that means we don't do social media stuff - we have an Avenged Sevenfold social media, but none of the band members have Facebooks or any sort of Twitter.
The Internet is just an abstract place. Sure, I've become part of that in some way, but it's hard for me to wrap my head around a lot of it. I prefer just to kind of stay out of it.
That's the great thing about social media: you can make one move, and everybody knows about it, and I kind of like that.
When I realized I could use Facebook as a way to communicate directly with my fans, I thought it would be a great idea.
It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.
I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account, and I don't know how I feel about this idea of, "Now, I'm eating dinner, and I want everyone to know that I'm having dinner at this time." or "I just mailed a letter and dropped off my kids." That, to me, is a very strange phenomenon.
Instagram and Twitter are the best ways to let people in on what I do - not only basketball, but having fun with my friends too.
I don't go on social media.
In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience.
I've said things on Twitter that I've said deliberately because I think they're out of order, I think that's the sense of humour that I've got. I like saying things that I think are terrible, because it gives me a buzz.
I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
The future of advertising is the Internet.
I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.
I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.
YouTube has always been a diary for me. I'm here to share what I do, share my life, and if people want to watch, more power to them. But regardless of my intention, if people are looking at what I do and am treating it like I'm a role model, it doesn't matter whether or not I want to be.
I might not have won 'Drag Race,' but I won the Internet.
You have to create a consistent brand experience however and wherever a customer touches your brand, online or offline. The lines are forever blurred.
I found social media was a way for me to open up and show the world who I was and also keep my name out there.
Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.
I don't read social media.
I knew it straight away when Twitter first came around, and also Facebook, where it was so easy to post, that this was another way to speak directly with people listening to my music. If they found my music and they like it, most likely they want to hear more from me and hear what I'm about. I've put an enormous amount of time into that and it's played out well for me.
